EXPERIENCES WITH INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND SERVICES FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN QUALITY ASSURANCE

Abstract The article report work related to designing, developing and introducing product-and process oriented training methods within the quality assurance sector in Norway, Hungary and Romania, as well as the plastic welding sector in Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, is reported. The article discusses use of on web-based student response services in vocational education and training related to industrial production processes. Keywords: Activity Based Training, Student Response Systems, mobile learning, quality assurance training, welding 1 INTRODUCTION As a teacher, when disseminating knowledge to large groups, feedback from the students is important. To get this feedback from large groups in an effective way is not so easy since a lot of students don't like the idea of speaking in large groups and hence tends to become silent and non communicative. Student response systems have been introduced and been demonstrated Response system technologies are going to be used in education of plastic welders in Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia • Cases from industrial manufacturing • Problem based learning methods where theory and practice are closely interconnected • New video solutions on modern, widely accessible and easy to use digital blackboards. This approach is completely new in training in the plastic welding sector in Slovenia, Slovakia and Norway, and implements modern learning tools into the training processes. Thus, use of SRS provides new methods for delivering in-company skills upgrading processes that reduce the costs related to competence and knowledge transfer, and enhances production competence and know-how transfer to VET schools. This includes

Spectral actinic flux in the lower troposphere: measurement and 1-D simulations for cloudless, broken cloud and overcast situations

In September 2002, the first INSPECTRO campaign to study the influence of clouds on the spectral actinic flux in the lower troposphere was carried out in East Anglia, England. Measurements of the actinic flux, the irradiance and aerosol and cloud properties were made from four ground stations and by aircraft. The radiation measurements were modelled using the uvspec model and ancillary data. For cloudless conditions, the measurements of the actinic flux were reproduced by 1-D radiative transfer modelling within the measurement and model uncertainties of about ±10%. For overcast days, the ground-based and aircraft radiation measurements and the cloud microphysical property measurements are consistent within the framework of 1-D radiative transfer and within experimental uncertainties. Furthermore, the actinic flux is increased by between 60-100% above the cloud when compared to a cloudless sky, with the largest increase for the optically thickest cloud. Correspondingly, the below cloud actinic flux is decreased by about 55-65%. Just below the cloud top, the downwelling actinic flux has a maximum that is seen in both the measurements and the model results. For broken clouds the traditional cloud fraction approximation is not able to simultaneously reproduce the measured above-cloud enhancement and below-cloud reduction in the actinic flux.© Author(s) 2005. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License